Binder board



Aug. 12, .1924.`

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK ECROMPTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, .ASSIGNOR TO' SIGNATURE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF'NEW YORK.

BINDER BOARD.

Application filed .Tune 1,

ToaZZ 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK E. CRoivrrToN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and Sta-te of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Binder Boards, of which the following is a specification.

In its broadest scope, my invention comprises mechanism for effecting a combined registry along two edges of a plurality' of overlapping sheets or documents.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention it is combined with a binder board having the general character shown in my prior U. S. Patent No. 1,350,141, dated August 17th, 1920. According to the practice set forth in said patent, sheets. or documents to be written upon are located in a temporary binder with respect to indicator fingers by which said sheets or documents are arranged in a predetermined order corresponding to that of the separately pivoted pens of a multiple writing mach-ine. In sheets or documents so arranged the thickness of: the-pack varies according to the number of sheets or documents superpcsed one `upon another at different points in the series. Hence the separately pivoted pens of the multiple writing machine are displayed in varying degrees depending upon the different thicknesses of the pack underlying the several sheets or documents which are beingv inscribed at the same time. As a result, when the sheets 0r documents are arranged in a temporary binder in the manner disclosed in my above identified patent, and fed into position in a multiple writing machine, the inscriptions made thereon by the several pens will be more or less displaced with respect to the positions they were intended to occupy. To overcome this objection, constitutes the primary object of my invention.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide an improved construction, combination and arrangement of parts in a binding board whereby the documents as they are placed in the binder, are automatically adjusted relatively to each other in amounts depending upon the thickness of the pack at those places to be writtenv uponvby several pens. Other and further objects will appear in the specification and be pointed out in the appended claims, reference be- 1923. serial No. 6423871'.

ing had. to the accompanying drawings which exemplify my invention in a preferred embodiment.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of abi'nder board .constructed in 4accordance with the principles of the present invention, parts being broken away.; y j

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same;

`Figure 3 is a section on anenlarged scale on the line Sf, Figurel;

Figure 4 is afragmentary diagrammatic front elevation onan enlarged scale showing the relative Adisplacement between the registering gagesy at opposite ends of the binder;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the register rail and the relatively movable side register gages pivotally mounted thereon;

Figure 6 is a diagrammatic front view of the variable registering mechanism ydetached; and

Figure? is a diagrammatic front elevation ofthe correspondingvseries vof pens of the multiple writingmachine,

`Referring more particularly to the drawn ings, the binder board comprises a bed plate 1, provided along its rear edge `with a` plurality of bearing brackets 2.A Within the bearing brackets 2 is journaplled .an oscillaw tory shaft 3. Mountedv on the shaft 3 adjacent to one end thereof is a hand lever 4 which is adj ustably connected tothe shaft 3 by means of a radial arm 5 iixedly connected to the shaftA `3 and adjustment screws 6 mounted in lugs 7 on the hand lever 4 on opposite sides of the arm 5. The adjustment vof the screws 7 will thus effect an angular `displacement of the hand lever l4 with re spect to other parts keyed to the oscillatory shaft 8. Keyed to the shaft ,3 intermediately of the spaced bearing Alugs of each of the brackets 2, is a radial armv. Secured to the outer ends of the radial arm 8 is a binder operating rail 9 which as shown in Figure 2, is provided alongglits lowerv edge with a series of notches 10. Said notches 10 accommodateforwardly presented ends 11a of a series of clips or. grippers V11V (see Figure 1) ,of the temporary binder now .to be described. Each of the 'grippers 11 is scoured by rivets 12 to a binder strip 13, said binder strip being of suitable length to fit between laterally spaced socket abutments 14 mounted on the bed plate 1 of the binder board. The binder strip 13 is provided with the rear edge ofthebedplate 1, and constitute front edge gages for, a pluralityV of Vsheets or documents.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that whenever the handle lever 4Vis depressed as shown in Figures 1 and 2, the

springV clip 17 is adapted to releasably engage 'av laterally 'projecting' pin 18 carried by the'handle lever 4. Y In this position of the gripper operating rail 9, the gripper strip13 ,willrbe forced down onto the bed plate 1, while the upwardly presented pins 16 project upwardly into engagement with the forwardly presented ends of the spring clips "11, vthus holding saidspring clips in raisedv positions to permit the documents to be inserted thereunder and serving as Vregistry gages for their front edges. Referring now more especially to Figures 8, 4, and 5, the documents registering device comprises a `transverse bar 2O provided along its rear face with slottedA lugs 21 which as shown in F igure adapt the vbar 20 toV be mounted Y along the upper edgeV of thegripper operating railA 9.Y Y Suitable set screws 22 are pro- Y vided for securing the lugs Y21 to the gripper operatingrail 9. Oscillatably mounted VVuponthe Yforwardly presented face of the register gage.

bar 20 are a plurality of side registering gages each comprising a flat plate 23 pivotally mounted on a stud 24 and provided Y with anV arcuate Vslot25. A second stud 26 which is threaded into the transverse bar 20, extends thru the arcuate slotv 25 and permits a limited angular movement to the side Saidv gage is provided with a forwardly presented flat-plate portion 27 against which the edge of a document is made'to abut when inserted into the binder.

'The lower edge of said Hat-plate portion 27 jis beveled upwardly as shown at 28 in Figures 3 and 5 toward they direction from which sheets or documents are introduced thereunder.' 'Said beveled 1lower edges are thusY adapted by a camming operation to raise the side edge gages 27 and thus to adjust the gaging surfaces thereof laterally -inamounts depending upon the thicknesses of sheets or documents thereunder.H In this way thecorrespondingly elevated pen points Y will be broughtinto-registery with the same writing line on YVeach sheet or document.

VAs shown in Figure 4, the pivoted gage 27 at` the `right Vend of'transversel bar V20, is in direct contact with the b ed plateV 1 ofthe binder board.- The side register gage 27 isy therefore disposed in normal vertical posi- .V tionsince there are no underlying documents.

At the other end of the transverse bar,'according to Figure 4, the registering placed position of the gaging surface thereof when elevated as shown in Figure 4. By an inspection of this igure it will be obvious that the next documentto be super-posed upon the pack to the left of the gage plate 27, will be adjusted laterally to a degree corresponding to the writing position of the corresponding pen of the multiple writing `machine.- A diagrammatic representation of the gage plates and writing pens correspending thereto are shown in Figures and 7. Thus in Figure 6 the gage plates 27 corresponding to the first tive and the tenth side register gages shown in Figure 5 are represented. In Figure 7, the corresponding writing pens 30 of a multiple writing machine are shown'pivotally mounted at 3l upon a tubular bar or rod 32, said writing pens 30 being displaced in greater degree toward the left according to the graded thicknesses of documents arranged below them; It will be understood therefore that the side registry position of each of said gages is variable depending upon the thickness of documents thereunder.

I claim:-

1. In a binder board, means for operating a binder to receive documents and for hold- Ving said documents in a predetermined va binder tol receive documents and for holding said documents in a predetermined arrangement, and side registering gages for locating said documents as they are placed within the binder, said side registering gages operating to automatically adjust the positions of the documents to correspond to the thicknesses of documents underlying the respective gages.

4. In a binder board, the combination Awith a bed plate. adapted to receive a document binder, of means for opening the grippers of said binder and permitting them to close on a group of documents in ltitl pre-arranged order, and side registering gages slidably engaging the lateral edges of said documents for automatically adjusting the lateral positions of said documents With respect to each other.

5. In a binder board, Athe combination with a bed plate adapted to receive a document binder, of means for j opening the grippers of said binder and permitting them. to close on a series of documents in pre-arranged order, and side registering gages for locating said documents in the binder, each of said side registering gages being adapted to be displaced by the introduction of a document therebeneath and by said displacement to adjust the position of a document registered thereby.

6. In a binder board, the combination With a bed plate adapted to receive a document binder, of means for opening the grippers of said binder and permitting them to close on a group of documents in pre-arranged order, and side registering gages laterally contacting -vvith said documents in the binder, each of said side registering gages being automatically adjustable by a prior registered document to correct the position of a document to be registered by said gage.

7. In a binder board, a bed plate, an oscillatory shaft mounted on said bed plate., a rail carried by said oscillatory shaft and cooperating With saidbed plate for opening and closing the grippers of a document binder, and a plurality of side registering gages mounted on said rail for locating a series of documents as they are moved into position Within the binder.

8. In a binder board, a bed plate, .an oscillatory shaft mounted on said bed plate, a rail carried by said oscillatory shaft and cooperating with said bed plate for opening and closing the grippers of a document binder, and a plurality of side registering gages mounted on said rail for locating a seriesof documents Within the binder, said side registering gages being provided with registering surfaces adjustable laterally to correspond to different thicknesses of documents side gages.

9.- In a binder board, a bed plate for holding a document binder, a gage bar mounted to oscillate about an axis on said bed plate, side registering gages oscill-atably mounted on said gage bar, and means for opening and closing the grippers of said document binder.

10. In a binder board, an oscillatory shaft, a rail mounted on said oscillatory shaft and adapted to be moved into and out of position to open the grippers of a document binder, and side registering gages carried by said rail and oscillatable about separate axes, each of said side registering underlying said registering gages being provided With'a gagingsur'face Which is adjusted laterally by the oscillation of said gage.

11. In ay binder board, a bed plate provided With upwardly presented pins arranged to correspond to xthe grippers of a document binder, a binderI operating rail oscillat-able about an axis and adapted to depress the binder down on to said bed plate against the pressure of said grippers acting against said pins, and side registering gages mounted on said rail for individually locating the documents to be placed in said binder.

.12. In a binder board, a rock shaft, a binder operating rail mounted on said rock shaft, a gage bar reciprocable on said rail, and a plurality of side registering gages oscillatably mounted on said gage bar and adapted to be displaced in variable degree, depending upon the thickness of documents the'rebeneath, each of said gages being provided vvith a laterally adjustable gaging surface for automatically correcting the position of the document located thereby.

18. In mechanism for registering a plurality of sheets, the combination With means for registering the front edges of said sheets, of means abutting the lateral edges of said sheets for side registering the same.

14. In mechanism of the character described, the combination With means for registering the front edges of a plurality of overlapping sheets, of separately movable means for registering the side edges of said sheets.

15. In mechanism of the character described, the combination with means for registering the front edges of a plurality of overlapping sheets, of laterally spaced side registry gages movable separately for gaging the side edges of said sheets in variab e positions depending upon the thicknesses of documents underlying said gages.

16. In mechanism of the character described, the combination with means for registering the. front edges of a plurality of overlapping sheets, of laterally spaced side registry gages for separately gaging the side edges of said sheets, said side registry gages being laterally adjusted by displacement due to the varying thickness of the documents underlying the several side registry gages.

17. In mechanism of the character described, means for front registering a plurality of overlapping sheets, and separately movable side registering gages resting upon said sheets `and having registering surfaces adjustable laterally by vertical displacement due to the variable thickness of the sheets underlying said gages.

18. The combination vvith a binder board, of a document binder, and a plurality of independently movable side edge gages adapted t0 locateV said documents as they arev placed in vsaid binder Vand to laterally adjust them to correspondV to thicknesses of documents below said gages.

.l 19. The combination With a binder board, of a document binder, and side edge gages for documents to be mounted in said binder, said gages being movable independently of each other to permit the introduction thereunder olY variable thicknesses oi said documents and adjustable laterally by said upward movements to vary Vthe location .of said documents in said binder depending upon the thickness of said documentsbelow said side edge gages.

20. The combination with a binder'board, of a document binder, and side edge gages vtor documents to be mountedV Vin said binder, saidV Vgages being' movable independently of each other to permit lthe introductionf thereunder of variable thicknesses of said documents land adjustable laterally by said upward movements to vary the locaments below said side edge gages, said side edge gages comprising plates having the lower edges bevelled upwardly toward the direction from which said documents are introduced thereunder.

2l. The combination with a binder for a plurality of sheets to be bound, of a support therefor, and sheet-gaging members movably mounted upon said support for respectively` locating said sheets binder, each of said sheet gaging' members having a gaging surface and a gage positioning surface.

22. The combination with a binder for a plurality of documents to be bound together, of a support therefor, and gage plates movably mounted on said support, said gage plates being provided with camshaped 'bea-ring edges adapted to be displaced by some documents and gaging surfaces for positioning other documents according to the displacement caused by the first mentioned documents.

tion of said documents in said binder l depending upon the thickness of said docu- FRAN K E. CROMPTON.

Within said 

